Comic attempt: "He lays in the reins"

When I really like a song, I need to do something with it. Usually, I play it again and again, in front of my exasperated friends. Then I try to play it with the guitar, but since I don't know how to play the instrument the results are bad, no matter how exited I am. Today, I've tried something different: to draw a sort of comic. I've chosen "He lays in the reins", that it's been on my personal top-five lately. And at least I don't bother my neighbors!

Letraset Promarkers (warm grey 1, 2, 3 i 5), Faber-Castell pens, in Letraset paper. I don't like the combination, because the markers erase the pens. The markers are cool, but hard to mix with other things, actually. :)

Reykjavík i Letraset

I'm trying again my Letraset Pro-Markers with watercolor paper. I'm not satisfied with the paper, too absorbent for the markers, they leave strikes. I'll look for another one, for my trips :)

Letraset Pro-Markers (warm grey 1,2,3 i 5), Pencil HB and 2B, Watercolor paper Clairefontaine, 300gr.

Drawing people

I find it pretty difficult to sketch people, and even more to paint them quickly. I want to illustrate when travelling, so I should learn it. Right now I'm practising with some photographies from my trip in Iceland.

I'll keep trying...

Into the wild

A couple of months ago I went to the cinema, as I use to do on Sundays. But the movie I watched thrilled me. It was Into the wild, and it's based on a book with the same name written by Jon Krakauer. He tells the story of a young boy that, after the graduation, gave all his money to an NGO and, with his old car, started a long trip to Alaska. His obsession with the far North cost him his own life. I do recommend not to judge him before reading the book. Here you have some of his lasts words:

Greetings from Fairbanks!
Arrived here two days ago.
Might be a very long time before I return south.
Now I walk into the wild.

 

And this is one of his lasts photographies:

 

 

I couldn't avoid to paint a watercolor from it, but I didn't succeed transmiting his face expression:

EDM #8 Draw your watch or other piece of jewerly

This drawing doesn't make justice to my handmade Sámi bracelet. It's made from brown leather and braided tin. I always wear it, to remember the 2.000 kilometers I traveled to have it.

EDM #5 Draw your favorite well-loved object, #6 Draw a bottle, jar or tin from the kitchen

My iPod and my red Moleskine.

EDM #4 Draw your mug or cup, #5 Draw your bed

I drawed my mug by heart from a friend's place.

EDM #2 Draw a desk land

I think it's my mother's, but I'm not sure. But I liked it.

EDM #1 Draw a shoe

Or both, as I did. I chosed the most colorful I have, so I wanted a happy drawing.

Hello world!

This blog is a selection of some of my entries in lullaby in black & white, those concerning traveling, writing, drawing and illustrating. I think this way is more organised.